Judd Gregg: “I see the cosponsor of the amendment is on the Senate floor. Would he like to take the time allocated to him?”

Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.

We cannot afford to take nuclear energy for granted.

The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.

Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.